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July 26, 1932. R; 5. JENNINGS POCKET Filed Dec, 10. 1931 3 MW 12 A.efeiamirgs Gum/M1410.

Patented July 26, 1932 RUBY SKELTON JENNINGS, or norms, INDIANA rocxnrApplication filed December 10, 1931, Serial No. 580,198.

'5 with blood and otherwise in a filthy condition. This is especiallytrue, because, owing to the fact that one does not like to undertake adisgusting task of the kind alluded to, pockets of a hunting coat oftenare permitted to become matted with blood and caked with dirt.

The foregoing being understood, this invention aims to provide a pocketfor a hunting coat, or for any other coat or garment, so

constructed that the pocket may be taken out and cleaned readily, theconstruction of the pocket being such that no difficulty will beencountered in cleaning it of blood or any other substances which havetemporarily accumulated therein. The'invention aims to provide novelmeans for mounting the pocket in the coat, and to provide novel meanswhereby access maybe had to the pocket.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that type to which the inventionappertains.

lVith the above and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription pro- 0 ceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1. shows in perspective, a huntingcoat wherein the device forming the subject matter of this applicationhas been embodied;

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure l, omitting the sleeveFigure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 1; g

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the pockets;

Figure 5 is an elevation of another of the pockets, parts being brokenaway, and parts being in section. 1

Figure 6 is aperspective showing a slight modification. ,Although thedevice forming the subject matter of this application-may be assembledwith garments of many kinds, and with hunting coats of differentconstructions, there is shown, by way of illustration, a hunting coat 1,including a body Qand a liningB, the underarm seams 4 defining, betweenthe lining 3 and the body 2, a rear pocket 5 and side pockets 6.Openings along the underarm scams 4 give access to the pocket 5 andthese openings are marked by the numeral 7. Openings 8 near to theforward edges of the, coat, give access to the side pockets 6.; Huntingcoats very often have outsidepockets, in addition to those mentioned,but the outside pockets are fomitted in the present disclosure, for thesake of clearness. g

In carrying out the invention, 1 provide an elongated sack 9, preferablymade of one piecefand constructedof rubb'eror rubber compound, thesack,therefore, being impervious, and being of such a constructionthat it canbe cleaned readily of the noisomemae terial or offal, likely toaccumulate in a hunting coat pocket. The sack 9 comprisesan inner wall10 and an outer wall ILL-connected by a bottom 12. The botto1n12iscon'vexfed transversely, as shown in Figure 2, and is stiff enough sothatit will hold the form shown in Figure 2. Owing to thisconstructiomthe bottom can be cleaned out readily. The lower ends 17 ofthe sack are constructed in the same way, up to the lower endofa slit 15which exists. in the forward end of the sack between the walls-10 and1l, and up to the place where the reference numeral 18is' applled'at therear end of the sack 9. Above the place wherethe numeral 18 is appliedin Figured, at the rear end ofthe sack, walls 10 and 7 l1 arenotconnected together. Owing'to this circumstance, and owin to the presenceof the slit 15 at thev forward end of the sack, gthe walls 10 and 11 ofthe sack can separate readi'lyalong with theilining 3 and the OOdy 2 of"the coat,.to permit objects of any kind to be introduced into the sack}A little abovqt lei lower end of the slit15, the walls and 11 connectingthe walls of the sacktogether at of the sack are connected by aseparable fastener 16, which may be a snap fastener. This fastener 16 isnot used to connect the sack to the coat. At its forward end, and at itsupper end, the sack has flexible tabslt which project upwardly from thewalls 10 and 11, the walls 10 and ll being flexible also. The sack is10- the slit and extended between.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signature.

' RUBY SKELTON JENNINGS.

' cated in the pocket 6, and snap fasteners 19 on the tabs '14 connectone tab to the body 20f [the coat, and the opposite tab to the lining 3of the coat. The snap fasteners 19 do not 7 hold the tabs 141 together.The walls 10 and 11 of the sack are provided, intermediatetheir and tothe body 2, but do not cooperate to hold the walls 10 and 11 closedtogether. At the rear ends of the walls 10 andll, at or near the upperedge 'of the said walls, there are snap fasteners 21, or equivalentdevices,

which connect the wall 11 to the body 2 of the coat and the wall 10 tothe lining 'The tabs 1 1 extend upwardly along the front edges of thecoat, at the opening 8, and the lower end of the slit 15 preferablycoincides with the lower end of the opening 8; The reason. for havingthe tabs 14 is to protect the coat, above the upper edge of the sack, atthe opening 8, without" having the sack proper too high, and capacious,andalso to avoid the use of too much material, and as well as having thepocket and the sack extend up so far that when filled with material, itwill intere fere with the movement of the arms of the wearer in thesleeves 22 of the coat."

In Figure 5 of the drawing, parts'hereinbefore described have beendesignated by numerals previously used, with the sufiix a;

The combination witha garment having a. body and a lining'and providedwith an opening leading to the space betweenthe body and the lining, ofa sack in said space and includingside walls, the side walls being.provided upon their upperedges with upstanding tabs located at the endof the sack, and there being adownwardly extended slit in the end of thesack, between the side walls, the tabs being located at the edge of theopening in the gar,-

ment, releasable fasteners connecting the tabs,

respectively, with the lining and with the body of the coat, and-areleasable fastener

